Jim Crow for Children: Review of “White Water” by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein, and Illustrated by Shadra Strickland

Fans of illustrator Shadra Strickland know that not only does she create wonderful pictures, but she associates herself with books of the highest quality. This one is no exception. Authors Bandy and Stein created this story from one of Bandy’s childhood memories of being prohibited from drinking from a water fountain reserved for whites only. [...]

Review of “The Wild Rose” by Jennifer Donnelly

Note: No spoilers are contained in this review This is the third book in The Tea Rose Series, which is a historical fiction saga of the Finnegan family beginning in the late 1800s with The Tea Rose, continuing with The Winter Rose, and ending, with this book, just after World War I. To punctuate the [...]